The Critics

Welcome to the unfrozen North

How Canada reinvented its musical prowess

Men beware women

How we underestimate the women in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte

Losing my head over Catherine

How the musical sensation, Six, uncovers more than just the stories of Henry VIII’s wives

The Marbles won’t be lost

Is this the end of the Elgin Marbles debate?

Bring on the therapists

Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy

Reel hell of the Western Front

The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester

A tale of two Harrys

Adam LeBor on the sharply written TV show: The Windsors

Would the Bard be forced to rebrand himself “gender-fluid”?

Romeo Coates on the latest backstage gossip

Unleash this heavenly voice

The role of music in Jewish worship has acquired a sudden topicality with the involvement of two major record labels

Less austerity, more pizazz

Grand opera was long thought quite dead but is suddenly rearing its shaggy head again